We had our first outing for a very long time today and it was so nice to be back out competing!

Both horses were a little over-excitable after their 6 week holiday, but after a quick call to Equifeast I'm pleased to say we are definitely heading in the right direction with getting their calcium/magnesium balance just right.

At least they were able to channel their extra energy into focussed performance, with Tiny coming 2nd in the British Novice by a small margin, and Leo winning the Discovery. They both jumped really nice rhythmical rounds in the next height up (Discovery and Newcomers), but just had a pole :/ Need to readjust to swapping between 14.2h and 16.3h again! The strides are pretty different!

We've been doing a lot of turn and angle practise recently and I was really keen to not get them into the ring and buzz them up, so they achieved these results with a pretty laid back canter, just very very tight turns and short approaches to fences.

Very very pleased with both and will be out jumping bigger tracks next time.